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Tuesday, 22 June 2021

Girl Leaving

Girl Leaving

It’s that time late Sunday afternoon

A time that both of us has got to know

There’s just no way of avoiding

The curfew when you have to go

 

I’ll tidy away the abandoned coffee cups

The two empty bottles of red wine

The plates we left in the kitchen

One of them yours, one of them mine

 

I’ll make the bed and straighten the sheets

Clear away the mess that we left behind

It’s a kind of displacement activity

Or some phrase of that kind

 

The weekends are always too short

Precious time that we’ve stolen away

But a few more memorable moments

Before the onslaught of another Monday

 

Copyright Andy Fawthrop 2021

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